Clover Blend Jug

This honey is perfect for tea lovers. I like its mild flavor and it pairs well with the multitude of herbal infusions that I prepare and drink on the daily. This is my second purchase of it; and though i do prefer organic raw honey, this organic processed honey suits well for everyday multi use. My only contention is that it pours fast from its jug-like container; I purchased a honey pot to solve the problem. All-in all I do recommend the product, it is priced well and organic too. 🐝🍯

I bought two jugs of this product. As many buyers complained, it arrived crystalized solid, it couldn't be poured out. Now, I know that all honey will crystalize if given time, so here is how I solved this: I placed the jug in a deep pan with a ceramic plate upside down at the bottom to protect the plastic jug, filled the pan with water up to the neck of the jug and put it on an electric hot plate at minimum setting. Allowed it to warm up for an hour or so to where you can almost not touch it (about 170 deg. F) and then let it stand for a couple of hours at around this temperature. The honey then returned to its normal liquid state and pours easily. This process is a bit of a nuisance, but it works. If you want to avoid the trouble, pay more for another brand. I also did the vinegar test and it showed that this honey is un-doctored and pure.

This jug of honey arrived as hard chunks and watery liquid around it. It was basically crystalized so much that i had to dig it out with a spoon, what I could reach. Then cut the jug in half with a knife so that I could reach the rest of it to dig it out. I think the product is watered down because of the liquid in between the chunks. The crystalized chunks is probably honey but not the liquidized. I put the honey in a glass jar to heat. After the crystalization melted, I could stir the warm honey. After it is cool the next day, it is thinner, not thick like completely pure honey would be. I would definitely not buy it again. Of course, i can't return it because I didn't find out all these things until i checked into the product, and the jug is cut now. But I wish i wouldn't have gone to all the work to melt the crystalized honey and just returned it, because the end product is not what it is advertised to be as pure honey. I don't think so. Odd taste. Doesn't taste like honey.

I have bought this honey several times over the years. It is really tasty and definitely real CLOVER honey. I have tried many different honeys (wildflower, alfalfa, etc) and Clover tastes best. This is delicious honey at a good price. My only issue is the jug itself, because if the honey crystallizes (as all honeys do eventually), it's impossible to get it out of the jug because the mouth of the jug is small and it's thick plastic. I tried (and tried and tried in the past). I tried cutting the top portion off the jug, but failed because the plastic is so thick and I needed to be careful that I didn't get tiny plastic cart particles inside the honey. I also tried putting it in the pan of hot water and it didn't work either. Because the jug is plastic, I didn't want to heat it up too much because I don't want to drive plastic molecules into the honey. so… I found a solution… When I received this jug of honey, I immediately transferred it to 8 oz sterilized Mason jars that I bought on Amazon. That way, if it crystallizes, I can easily access the honey through the wider mouthed shallower jar. And because it's glass, I can heat it safely if necessary. The jug exactly fills 7 of the 8 oz jars.

I should probably give this 5 stars considering the price for value. Let's call it 4.5. I can't give it 5 stars, because the flavor is so just sort of "generic honey". It's definitely real honey though, which is hard to find for decent prices like this. It would be perfect for general sweetener, drizzles, cooking, and still has healthy honey benefits. I wouldn't use it in herbal tea or where honey flavor is a feature ingredient, but that's just my snobbiness in expecting honey to be flavorful. It does crystalize as all real honey does, so you'll need to heat the bottle under hot water or scoop it out. If you want runny honey you have to buy fake honey or non-raw non-organic honey.

I saw a handful of negative reviews for this product, so I was a a bit curious how this honey would be when it arrived. You'll see my jug of honey is a Product of the USA, and also came with a safety seal under the lid; it isn't crystallized at all, and didn't leak either... so I'm pleased. The flavor tastes like honey. People who were saying their honey tastes like molasses-- it's possible! There is so much variation in honey! Again, it's made by bees from a field; embrace the variations! If your honey was marked as coming from a different region of the world, maybe it was just the right season for honey harvesting there at the time. Why do you assume that Ukranian or Indian beekeepers don't care for their bee colonies as well as American beekeepers do? Remember folks, honey is going to taste different season to season, year to year, bee colony to bee colony, bee to bee. Honey isn't a chemical that's manufactured in a factory with a strict recipe we can control-- this is a product made by insects, based on flowers that also vary season to season based on rain, soil, etc.. Embrace the variations. If it's crystallized, just remember that's normal. Honey crystalizes because it's *real!* It is not defective-- it's just a matter of how much fructose vs glucose the honey has in it, and again, that's all variable season to season, flower to flower, bee to bee. If you're worried about not being able to consume the whole jug of honey before it naturally crystalizes, consider pouring and storing it in some wide-mouth Bell Jars; that way if it does crystalize you can still get it out with a spoon. (Crystalized honey is perfectly safe to eat. Remember rock candy as a kid? That's crystalized table sugar. Crystalized honey is the same deal. Totally safe.) Happy honey-ing!